Communist activities in the peace movement (Women Strike for ...

2136 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Do you operate a mimeograph machine?
(Witness conferred with counsel.)
Mrs. Freed. Do you mean do I now, sir? Do you mean do I now
operate a^——
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Mr. NiTTLE. Did you then operate a mimeograph machine?
Mrs. Freed. I stand on my previous statement.
Mr. NiTTLE You stand on your privilege.
Now, I will pose the question: Have you recently operated a mimeograph
machine?
Mrs. Freed. No.
Mr. Doyle. May I see that exhibit, please?
Mr. NiTTLE. Yes, sir.
Mrs. Freed, I hand you a copy of a leaflet marked for identification
as Freed Exhibit No. 3, which is entitled ''WESTCHESTER WOMEN
FOR PEACE INVITE YOU TO A DISCUSSION OF CUBA.''
"Time: Wednesday, December 12, 8:30 P.M. Place: Scarsdale
Friends Meeting House, Popham Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y., off Rt. 22.
Admission: Free."
Did you participate in the preparation or duplication of that item
for dissemination?
Mrs. Freed. I did not.
(Document marked "Freed Exhibit No. 3" and retained in committee
files.)
Mr. NiTTLE. Did you participate in the arrangements made for
the affair to be held at the place noted, and for the discussion to be
held on the subject of Cuba?
(Witness conferred with counsel.)
Mrs. Freed. I didn't participate in the actual arrangements of this
meeting, but at a meeting we did have a general discussion about
having such a meeting.
Mr. NiTTLE. You did participate in the discussions relating to this
subject, did you not?
Mrs. Freed. General discussion, yes.
Mr. NiTTLE. Did you also discuss this problem with A^Irs. Blanche
Posner of the New York headquarters of Women Strike for Peace,
your parent organization?
Mrs. Freed. Shall I read this again?
Mr. NiTTLE. You may say "the same reply," if you wish.
Mrs. Freed. I question-—the same reply as previously indicated.
Mr. NiTTLE. Mrs. Freed, I hand you a photostatic copy of the
Independent Nominating Petition-—Communist Party for the 1941
election, marked for identification as Freed Exhibit No. 4, upon which
it appears that an Iris Schwartz of 659 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn,
N.Y., signed that petition in support of the candidacy of well-known
Communist functionaries, particularly named as Israel Amter, Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, and James W. Ford, who sought respectively the
offices of Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Council of the
City of New York.
Are you the Iris Schwartz who executed that petition on September
15, 1941?
Mrs. Freed. I stand on the statement I previously made.
(Document marked "Freed Exhibit No. 4" and retained in committee
files.)